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In 1994, he spearheaded an unsuccessful movement to get then-Gov. Kirk Fordice to pardon Byron de la Beckwith, who was convicted of murdering Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963.
Evers' brother, Charles Evers, said Thursday he has long thought that Barrett didn't really believe the things he said, but used them to entice people to donate money to his cause.
'I think it was just a way he had to live,' Evers said. 'He made a living talking all that racist talk.'
If Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can make a living doing that, why can't a white man?